[ Conferences ]

• The Institute for Central Europe and the Balkans of
  
  the University of Bologna and the Centre of Competence for South-East-Europe of Graz
  
  University proposes a conference on the Interdependence of the International Treaties in
  
  the Balkan region and the related complex stabilization process in Forli, Italy, on 20th
  
  -21st January 2006. More information on the conference
  
  webpage.

• SOYUZ, the Post-Communist Cultural Studies Interest Group of Bryant University in
  
  Smithfield, Rhode Island, USA, invites to a conference on Refiguring “Socialist” and
  
  “Postsocialist” Spaces in a Deterritorializing World on 3-5 March 2006. For more
  
  information, please read the Call for proposals.

• The Center for Conflict Studies of the Philipps-Universität Marburg/Germany proposes a
  
  Spring School on Ethnic Conflicts from 6-11 March 2006. More information on the university webpage.

• The Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) will organize a conference on
  
  Nationalism in an Age of Globalization from 23-25 March 2006 at Columbia
  
  University/New York. There will be 100 thematic and geographic panels. For more information
  
  please check the ANS webpage and the conference announcement (pdf).

• The Universities of Montpellier III/Paris 8/ Ecole Normale Superieure and the Young Researchers Group on "Morality, Politics, and International Justice" are inviting to a conference on Philosophical heritage, historical contingency and moral universality. Reception of the ICTY in ex-Yugoslavia from 30 March to 1 April 2006 in Paris. For more information, please read the call for papers.

• The annual conference of the British Association of Slavonic and East
  European Studies (BASEES) will be held at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
  University on 2-4 April 2006.

• The Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj proposes a conference on The New Frontiers of
  
  Europe. International,
  Inter-ethnic and Inter-Confessional
  Relations from 6 to 8 April 2006. Abstracts can be sent in until 30 January 2006. More
  
  information on the conference
  
  website.

• The Oxford University Greek Society, with the support of
  
  South East
  European Studies at Oxford, is organising a graduate conference on
  Greece and the Balkans: two hundred years of coexistence, interaction
  and mutual influence in Oxford at the end of April 2006. For more information, check the
  
  conference webpage. Abstracts
  
  can still be submitted until 1 February 2006.

• The Central European University in Budapest will hold the Second CEU Graduate Conference
  
  in Social Sciences on The End of Transitions? Central and Eastern European Countries in
  
  Comparative Perspective from 5 to 7 May 2006. Proposals for papers and panels are welcome
  
  especially from young scholars (deadline: 30 January 2006). Fore more information please
  
  email the Conference co-ordinator Todor
  
  Arpad.

• The Institute of Economics of Wroclaw University hosts a conference on the Economic
  
  Relations in the Enlarged EU on 11-12 May 2006. Papers can be sent in until 1 April 2006.
  
  For more information, email Prof. Jaroslaw
  
  Kundera.

• The European Studies Institute in Diauliai, Lithuania invites applicants for a conference
  
  on
  European Studies: between Globalisation and Regionalism (Humanitarian and Social Aspects)
  
  on 12-13 May 2006. Proposed topic areas for presentations: New European Centres and
  
  Peripheries: the Dynamics of Polycentricity in EU; The Change of Mentalities against the
  
  Background of European Integration Processes; Development of National Languages in the New
  
  EU: Facts and Prospects; National Literatures of EU: Globalisation and Pop-Culture vs.
  
  Artistry and Identity; Political Identity Crossroads: between the East-West Concept and
  
  North-South Orientation of the New Europe; Global Integration and Migration of the Work
  
  Force: New Technological and Cultural Collaboration Opportunities; New Historical Identities
  
  of EU: the Imagined Community, Propaganda and Facts. Deadline for abstracts: 15 February
  
  2006. For more information, please check the conference website.

• The European Research Unit of the Athens Institute for Education and
  Research (AT.IN.E.R.) announces its 4th international conference on
  International and European Political and Economic Affairs for 29-31 May 2006. More
  
  information can be found on the conference website.

• The Centre for East European Studies of
  Warsaw University is organizing the Third Warsaw East European Conference on Twenty five
  
  years of changes in the post-communist world on 5-8 July 2006. Abstracts can be sent in
  
  until 31 March 2006. More information can be found on the conference website.

• The Max Planck-Institute for Social
  Anthropology, the Danish Institute for International
  
  Studies and the Humboldt-University Berlin are proposing a conference on
  The Artifices of Government. On the appropriation, the use, and the formation of
  states on 20-21 July 2006, bringing together scholars from history, anthropology,
  
  political
  sociology as well as sociology and political science. More information on the conference announcement website and
  
  in the call for
  
  papers.

• The Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Limerick will
  
  host a conference aiming at Exchanging Ideas on Europe 2006 - Visions of Europe: Key
  
  Problems, New Trajectories from 31 August to 2 September 2006. Abstracts can be submitted
  
  until 13 February 2006. More information on the conference website.

• The 2006 ASN European Conference on Globalization, Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in
  
  the Balkans and its Regional Context will be organized by the Forum for Ethnic Relations
  
  in Belgrade on 28-30 September 2006. The conference will tackle nationalism and ethnic
  
  conflict; the development of national identity and the challenges of globalization; violence
  
  and terrorism, organized crime and illegal migrations; conflict prevention; and the
  
  protection of human and minority rights. For the submission of abstracts and more
  
  information, please email the Forum for Ethnic Relations. Scholars from South Eastern Europe can
  
  apply for grants.